Dominican missionary, traveled to China and killed for the faith; beatified by Saint Pope JPII

 

Bl. John Alcober

 

Facts

Feastday: December 30
Death: 1748
Canonized By: Pope John Paul II

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Dominican martyr of China. Born in Gerona, Spain, he entered the Dominicans, being sent in 1728 to China as a missionary. Arrested in 1746 by Chinese officials, he was held in prison until strangled to death. He died with Blessed Peter Sanz and other Dominicans.